Tiger Airways' commercial director Kaneswaran Avili said that the airlines hopes to forge alliances with domestic carriers in couple of months. (Pic by Reuters)

HYDERABAD: Singapore-based low-cost airline Tiger Airways is in talks with domestic carriers including Spicejet and Indigo to forge alliances to help passengers in smaller cities routed through Hyderabad for their Singapore travel, said a top official.

The strategy is part of the hub-and-spoke model where passengers from nearby smaller cities of Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring states travelling to Singapore were carried by the domestic airlines to Hyderabad so as to get into international flights of Tiger Airways.

Tiger Airways' commercial director Kaneswaran Avili told ET that the airlines hopes to forge alliances with domestic carriers in couple of months. The Singapore carrier, which now enjoys over 80% load factors in international passenger traffic from India, is also looking at significantly increasing the flight frequency from India.

Avili was in Hyderabad on Friday evening to announce a corporate fare distribution agreement with Via.com, a travel network firm that offers services such as domestic and international flight tickets, hotels, rail tickets and domestic and outbound holidays. He said the corporate fares through agreement with Via.com will allow greater connectivity and more value for money to business travellers in India, which includes free check-in baggage of up to 25 kg, priority boarding and no fee on changes to ticket bookings upto four hours before the departures.